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2023 Privacy and AI Governance Report
This report explores the state of AI governance in organizations and its overlap with privacy management. We focused on companies’ change processes when striving to use AI according to responsible AI principles such as privacy, accountability, robustness, security, explainability, fairness and human oversight. This study aims to report on different approaches to governing AI in general and to explore how these nascent governance efforts intersect with existing privacy governance approaches
Five Resolutions for Intentional Legal Operations Improvements
In legal operations, the best laid plans often go awry. More than half of corporate legal departments are currently struggling to effectively implement business process improvements and/or manage their budgets as they work to reduce costs, accelerate service delivery and realize efficiencies. Despite their objectives to optimize across process, technology, vendor management, resource allocation and more, 53% either do not have or are still developing a defined roadmap and strategy. Against that backdrop, most expect that successfully realizing and solidifying their programs will persist as a leading challenge in the year ahead.
The 2023 General Counsel Report - Part Two
Risk is now at the center of every conversation in the modern legal department. Over four consecutive years of study in the annual General Counsel Report, in-house counsel have expressed how they’ve been required to evolve and reinvent their roles. Once seen only as risk mitigators, they have become strategic business partners and have taken on an array of new responsibilities across a widening risk landscape.
Translating the increasing alignment and divergence in global data protection regulation.
Proactive compliance monitoring programs are becoming increasing important to mitigate the risks and fallout associated with rising regulatory enforcement. It’s important to note that these programs can be implemented without significant resources or investment in new tools. With the right planning and expertise, a company’s existing data and systems can be used to incorporate data analytics and communications monitoring into any compliance program.
Establishing Information Governance Best Practices for Microsoft 365 Deployments
Microsoft accounts for 92% of the content services market, with most organisations utilising services within Microsoft 365 and/or Microsoft Teams to enable productivity and efficient remote working. In 2020, Microsoft 365 users generated more than 30 billion collaboration minutes in a single day as people communicated, collaborated and created documents at accelerating speed. This pace of adoption and scale of use has made it difficult for many organisations to maintain consistent information governance (IG).
The State of Emerging Data 2022: Waking a Sleeping Giant
Compliance, legal and IT teams face a dynamic data universe that is generating an unprecedented and varied influx of risk. The increased use of cloud-based and collaboration tools is creating challenges across investigations, legal matters, governance and data protection. Adapting to this new landscape of emerging data sources will be paramount to mitigating risks and establishing new best practices.
Blockchain technology and the digital asset class, including cryptocurrencies, have experienced a rapid and accelerating evolution. Overall, the number of companies bringing services to market to support real-world blockchain and cryptocurrency applications through payments, loans, custody, investment and clearance and settlement is on a steady uptick, illustrating the technology’s momentum among financial institutions looking to establish an early position in the industry while awaiting regulatory clarity.
The General Counsel Report 2022
Previous General Counsel studies revealed that the trials from the past two years were critical in preparing legal teams with the endurance needed to face a myriad of emerging expectations and challenges. In this year’s GC Report, we explore three critical areas that will soon dominate time and resources: risk, culture and technology.
Law Department Operations Technology Survey: The Journey to Modernization
The pandemic has impacted us all in many ways. For some, it has meant pausing, reassessing priorities and charting a course for the future. The same can be said of businesses, and the legal departments within. To better understand the changes sought by law departments to increase efficiency through technology, FTI Consulting partnered with the Blickstein Group to conduct a study analyzing the road to technology modernization.
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